A feature Google demoed at its I/O confab yesterday, using its generative AI technology to scan voice calls in real time for conversational patterns associated with financial scams, has sent a collective shiver down the spines of privacy and security experts who are warning the feature represents the thin end of the wedge. They...
Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn’t rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn’t unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.
Telemetry was added to create an aggregate count of searches by category to broadly inform search feature development. These categories are based on 20 high-level content types, such as "sports,” “business,” and “travel”. This data will not be associated with specific users and will be collected using OHTTP to remove...
To improve Firefox based on your needs, understanding how users interact with essential functions like search is key. We’re ramping up our efforts to enhance search experience by developing new features like Firefox Suggest, which provides recommended online content that corresponds to queries. To make sure that features like this work well, we need better insights on overall search activity – all without trading off on our commitment to user privacy. Our goal is to understand what types of searches are happening so that we can prioritize the correct features by use case.
My favourite story is when a Russian sent their address to someone in Europe (french?) and the character encoding fucked up so the address was fucked. And yet someone at the post figured it out and successfully delivered the mail.
I can find the video from where I learned it if anyone is interested. Right now I’m too tired.
Yeah that’s not great but not too surprising when it comes to the Irish DPA.
They are seemingly very corrupt. They pretty much refuse to fine any of the large US corporations like Facebook.
And while they have actually fined Facebook multiple times that’s because the rest of the EU (EDPB) forced them too. It wasn’t a willing decision on their part. They have also cried to the Irish government (or parliament) to get a new law that makes it possible to get the reporting party (I.E. normal EU citizens and NGOs) to pretty much sign a NDA regarding everything in the case.
Why are they like this? Why do they interpret the GDPR differently than the rest of the EU and coincidentally they interpret the law in Facebook’s favour?
I have no evidence but to me it seems extremely likely that they are directly bribed or more likely IMO is that Ireland wants to keep all the tax avoiding US companies in Ireland and they do this to keep them happy and when they get fined anyways they can blame the EU for the fines.
Oh and Ireland is still the one that’s actually issuing the fine, so they get to keep the money even when they were forced to do it.
On another note, I suspect that DPAs are more eager to fine when it’s something that’s done explicitly bad. Like refusing to delete data.
There is no reason that they couldn’t do 3 1080p monitors or more especially when the newer generation chips are supposedly so much faster than the generation before it.
Having two external monitors + the built it minor is extremely common.
At work almost everyone has at least two monitors because anything less sucks (a few use just a big external one plus the built in) and it’s also common to also use the built in monitor for stuff like slack or teams.
Having more than two monitors isn’t a “pro” feature. It’s the norm nowadays.
Sure it might be enough for the cheapest option if the cheapest option was cheap. Unfortunately they are absolutely not cheap, and are in fact fairly expensive.
1080p is perfect for getting actual work done though.
And there is not reason why they couldn’t allow you to have multiple normal res monitors. It’s not a limitation to get you to overspend on a more expensive computer.
Google's call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn (techcrunch.com)
A feature Google demoed at its I/O confab yesterday, using its generative AI technology to scan voice calls in real time for conversational patterns associated with financial scams, has sent a collective shiver down the spines of privacy and security experts who are warning the feature represents the thin end of the wedge. They...
Waveshare's Latest Sensor Adds a Thermal Camera to Your Raspberry Pi — or Any Device with a USB Port - Hackster.io (www.hackster.io)
Here’s a $120usd FLIR - how does it compare with a cheap plug in USB phone module?...
Later, losers (lemmy.world)
Apple to Reduce Motion Sickness With Vehicle Motion Cues on iPhone (www.macrumors.com)
Obscure screw added so appliance cannot be disassembled (lemmy.world)
Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn’t rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn’t unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.
Chinese planes 'increasingly provocative' to Taiwan (www.dw.com)
Taiwan reported 45 Chinese warplanes in its airspace within 24 hours, according to its defense ministry on Wednesday....
X now treats the term cisgender as a slur (www.engadget.com)
Firefox 126: New Search Data Telemetry, Improved Copy Without Site Tracking, Security Fixes, and More (www.mozilla.org)
Telemetry was added to create an aggregate count of searches by category to broadly inform search feature development. These categories are based on 20 high-level content types, such as "sports,” “business,” and “travel”. This data will not be associated with specific users and will be collected using OHTTP to remove...
ASUS breaks your ROG Ally if you don't pay $200 for warranty repairs: SCAMMING COMPANY! (youtu.be)
Switzerland’s Nemo is first nonbinary singer to win Eurovision Song Contest (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Rahul Gandhi did in 37 seconds what Indian media couldn't do in 10 years (i.imgur.com)
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/24919089
Reality check (programming.dev)
I guess he moved. (lemmy.world)
PSA: A website called SteamHistory enables stalkers through Steam mass data harvesting. Here's how stalkers found me despite creating a new, private, anonymous account.
tl;dr: Watch what you put online and who you friend, especially on Steam. Once it’s on the internet, it’s there forever....
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Operating Systems for Different Life Stages (lemmy.zip)
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